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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. State Board of Eduation






2. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






3. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






4. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






5. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






6. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






7. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






8. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






9. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






10. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






11. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






12. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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13. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






14. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






15. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






16. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






17. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






18. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






19. Multisensory Structured Language Education






20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






21. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






22. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






24. Wide Range Achievement Test






25. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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26. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






27. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






28. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






29. Final stable syllable

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30. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






32. Individual Educational Plan






33. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






34. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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35. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






36. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






37. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






38. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






39. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






40. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






41. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






42. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






43. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






44. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






45. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






46. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






47. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






48. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






49. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






50. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo